Exco wants Lim municipal borders redetermined

The Limpopo Executive Council (Exco) last Wednesday directed Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (Coghsta) MEC, Makoma Makhurupetje to write to the Municipal Demarcation Board and request the invocation of section 22 (1) of the Municipal Demarcation Act on behalf of the province. This means the board would be asked to initiate a process to re-determine the municipal boundaries of Lim 345 Municipality, a new municipality established following the recent local government elections when a small percentage of voters turned up at the voting stations to cast their ballots. The council of the new municipality, comprising 36 wards and currently known as Lim 345 held its first meeting on 12 August. Leadership of the council has been elected and officials have been seconded to the municipality pending the appointment of permanent staff.
Phuti Seloba, Provincial Government Spokesperson in a media conference on Thursday stated that the Exco also noted progress in relation to the Vuwani disaster area. The Department of Public Works, Roads and Infrastructure has done damage assessment on the affected schools and calculated the total amount re-quired for emergency reconstruction and rehabilitation of educational infrastructure in Vuwani and surrounding villages to be R303 101 900.
Seventy six mobile class rooms at a cost of R22 million have been delivered to the area where 30 schools have been damaged through torching during violent protest in the run-up to the elections.

Story: NELIE ERASMUS
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